Don't use OpenOffice.org Beta (1.9.95)

[david]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 00:03 -0400, Andy Choens wrote:
> On 4/24/05, David Teague <teague at jackson.main.nc.us> wrote:
> > 
> > The Linux version of OpenOffice.org 1.9.95 pegs the cpu while
> > idle. See the bug report at
> > 
> >  http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=47944. As a result, I
> > 
> > I just had an equivalent problem in Windows XP. When I
> > stress the writer application by opening a web page with
> > Writer the system crawls and the Task Manager says that
> > soffice.bin is using 95-99% of the CPU.
> > 
> >
> 
> Well, always the glutton for punishment, this seemed like a great
> reason to go and install the silly thing, alongside .79 from Ubuntu's
> repos.  Over-all I've had good luck with .79, but figured what the
> heck....I want to see what this new one looks like.
> 
> Well, with the help of alien I got it to install, although not thanks
> to the tips on the web-page.  The tips the OOo webpage had for Debian
> users had me calling deprecated and non-existent commands...what fun! 
> After fixing the permissions issues which I assume were caused by
> alien...why would soffice not be set for global execution?......
> 
> I don't seem to have any issues with it trying to eat all of my CPU
> cycles, but it doesn't seem to be able to remember me.  I execute
> ./swriter from /opt/open..../program and it starts right up and gets
> my user info, and then it works just fine.  But, if I exit and do the
> same thing over again, it thinks I'm a first time user again and runs
> the first time wizard.  I think there's some additional tweak to my
> permissions that I need.
> 
> If anyone has gotten this to go, I'd love to hear how you did
> it...maybe we can forward this all back to the OOo devs so their
> Debian help file will be more recent/applicable.
> 
> --andy
> 

The method I use...

sudo nautilus
delete previous OpenOffice folder in /opt

sudo rm -f /usr/bin/soffice

cd to new RPMS folder (in my home area)

alien -k openoffice*

rm -f *.rpm

delete the suse, fedora and mandrake menu .debs

sudo dpkg -i openoffice*

sudo ln -s /opt/openoffice1.9.xx/program/soffice /usr/bin

sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/soffice

Fire up openoffice and reset the memory allocation and java location,
close it and restart it.

I'm currently using build 93.

And that's it.
I sort of presumed that the apparent absence of the "here's how for
debian" instructions (that were previously very obviously linked on the
development page) meant that they were no longer required, so stopped
using them. And, as you say, mostly they produced error messages that
didn't tally with what the instructions said to expect as output.

Having said all that, I still much prefer Abiword and Gnumeric. 

regards

nux